Show-box for combs



(No Model.)

- W. H. NOYBS.

SHOW BOX FOR GOMBS. No. 340,056. Patented Apr. 13, 1886.

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\VILLTAM HERBERT NOYES, OF NEVBURYPORI, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOW-BOX FOR COMBS.

.BPEC IFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,056, dated April 13. 1886. Application filed September 19, 1885. Serial No. 177,594. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HERBERT NOYES, of Newburyport, in the county of Essex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Comb Show-Boxes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top View, Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3, a transverse section, of a comb-box containing my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section showing a comb in place in one of the compartments of the said box. Fig. 5 is an inner side view, and Fig. 6 a transverse section, of one of the wooden ends of the box.

The two end portions, A A, of such box are usually made ot'wood, each being beveled or inclined inward on its upper edge, as shown at a. Each has also on its inner face a series of parallel grooves, 1), extending down in it from the inclined upper edge. Inserted in the grooves b of both the wooden ends,andextending from one to the other of such ends, is a series of partitions, c, of card-board, they being parallel to each, other, and serving to form with the ends and bottom and sides of the box a series of compartments, (2, to receive and hold combs for preservation or sale. Each comb has a metallic back, f, which at its ends extends above the lower edges of the inclined tops of the ends of the box.

In constructing the box a rccttngular sheet of cardboard, 9,01" suitable length and width, has the ends and partitions applied to each other placed on it, after which the sheet is turned up against the extremities of the wooden ends, so as to form or aid in forming the bottom and the two sides of the box. The outer surfaces of the said sheet and the two ends are next covered with paper, h, pasted or cemented thereon and extended over the upper edges of the box and a short distance down within itviz., to the depth of the inclined upper edge of each of the ends-the covering being also pasted t0 the inner surfaces of the sides as well as to the upper edges of the wooden ends.

By having each of the wooden ends inclined at top, with the inclination going below the backs of the combs, when the teeth of the combs are resting on the bottom of the box each comb can easily be removed from the box by a person by applying the forefingcrs of the hands to the ends of back, and lifting the comb out of its compartment.

I claim-- A comb show-box having at its bottom and sides two end partitionsshaped orinclined inwardly from its top, and also having in theinner face of each of such end portions a series of parallel grooves extending downward from the lower .part of the said edge, in combination with a series of partitions extending from one to the other of such end portions, and inserted in their grooves, all being substantially as set forth.

W'ILLIAM HERBERT NOYES.

Witnesses: 7

STEPHEN UoLLINs, GEORGE W. GREPTELL. 

